Apparatus for dyeing, &amp;c.



Patented June 26, I900.

A. MARE.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING, 81.0.

(Application filed Dec. 15,.1898.

(No Model.)

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ALEXANDER MARE, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR meme, etc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 652, 13 5 dated June 26, 1900.

Application filed December 15,1898. Serial ITO-699,339. (No model.)

To all 2071,0172, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER M E, a citizen of England, residing at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Bleaching, Drying, and Similarly Treating Yarn in Cops and the Like, (for which applications were filed in England September 29,1898, No. 20,562, and in Germany November 5, 1898,) of which the following is a f ull,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to apparatus for dyein g, bleaching, drying, and similarly treating yarn in cops and the like of that type in which one vessel is contained within another, the inner vessel having its walls bored or perforated for the reception of perforated spindles carrying the cops. Dyeing, washing, or bleaching liquid or the like is then forced or drawn from the space between the two vessels into the inner vessel orin the reverse direction, so that it passes through and im pregnates the cops.

The object of the present invention is to so construct the inner vessel that any desired portion may be cut off and isolated from the action of the pump or other forcing device.

In the vessels and apparatus at present commonly in use when the inner vessel is not fully charged or provided with cops it be comes necessary to plug up the holes which are unprovided with cops. Otherwise the liquid or thelike will flow chiefly through these holes and very little will pass through the substance of the cops. Thissystem of plugging presents many disadvantages, among them being the amount of time wasted.

My invention consists in forming the inner cop-bearing vessel in sections or compartments, each of which opens into a common channel or opening leading to the pump or other forcing device. The passages by means of which the separate sections communicate with the common channel are furnished with suitable valves, so that they may be opened or closed at will. By these valves, therefore, any one or more of the sections of the cop-bearing vessel may be placed in commu-' nication with the pump, and the dye orother liquid or fluid will only pass through those sections the valves of which are open. Any section unprovided with cops may thus be cut out, and the sections in a vessel may be successively or alternately placed in operation, or all or any desired number of them may be treated at once.

A convenient form of inner vessel may consist of a series of tubes arranged in groups. Each group of tubes or each tube, if desired, opens atits lower end into a separate channel, which in turn is in communication with the channel common to all the groups of tubes, the passage between the two channels being provided with a valve or cock. These channels may be formed in a base which is bored or recessed for the tube lower ends and which is formed with an opening for placing the common channel into communication with the pump or the like. Theupper ends of the tubes are contained within an upper member or frame, which may, if desired, be provided with a separate chamber for each group, and each of these channels when employed may be provided with aspring-controlled valve for the escape of air when the vessel is lower'ed into place in the outer vessel. The up per frame and the base may be secured and drawn toward each other by tie-rods, so as at the same time to make tight joints between themselves and the tube ends. Each tube is bored, preferably along diametrically-opposite lines, for the reception of the perforated spindles upon which the cops are placed.

In order that my invention may be more readily understood, the following drawings have been annexed, of which- Figure I shows the apparatus in vertical section, with the inner vessel in sectional elevation; and Fig. 2 shows the complete apparatus in vertical section at right angles with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a representation of one of the tubes composing a section of the inner vessel provided with nipples for the reception of the perforated spindles upon which the cops are placed.

Similar letters of reference are used to indicate similar parts where they occur in the different figures. I

In the form illustrated in the drawings each section of the inner vessel consists of three tubes bored along diametrically opposite lines, so that there are six vertical lines of cops in each section.

As will be seen, the apparatus consists of through the medium of the pipe H. thus be seen that any section may be cut out with the nozzle 10 of I the pump-pipe and automatically making a tight joint.

may be contained within a solid plate. l -air-will then escape throughthe perforated? two vessels A and 'B, A being the outerone, containing the dye or the like,-and B being the inner one, upon which the cops are placed. The inner vessel B is divided into sections, each section consisting of the three tubes 19 b, the lower ends of each group of tubes open ing into a separate compartment 0 0, formed in the base-plate D. Each of these compartments is provided with a cock or valve 0, by means of which communication may be established at will with the common chamber or compartment E. Thischamber E is formed or provided with a mouth or the like F, by means of which it may be placed in commu-' nication with the pump or forcing device G It will by-closing its valve 0 and that no dye or the like could pass through such cut-out'section when the pump is working.

,1 In use the inner vessel B, consisting of the figures; the mouth F of the baseD engaging K-K are flanges or ribs formedon the inner face ofthe vesselAand adapted to guide the -vessel B. l n the lower part of=Fig. 2 several copsiL are-shown in position.

Shonld it not be desired to treat'at one time fore explained. 1 In the formofapparatus illustrated by the each section opening into one or another of the compartments. -Each compartment mayl bevprovided'with a spring-controlled valve at to permit the escape of the air contained; within the sections when the vessel is lowered;

into the dyeing or other liquid. This con- I structiom however; isnot necessary, as the upper ends of the sections maybe closed or The? spindles and the substance of the cops. The} upper iand lower plates and the cop-bearing;

sectionsmay be secured and held together! vessel B is in place upon the pump-nozzle is as follows: The pump or other forcing or drawing-device is set in motion, andliquid is drawn from the vessel A through the cops upon the sections the valves of which are open and is returned to the vessel A through the pipes N. A constant circulation is thus maintained, and the cops are thoroughly impregnated. When the operation is completed, the vessel B is withdrawn and the cops may be removed, or the complete vessel still bearing the cops may be removed to another apparatus for bleaching, drying, or the like operation, this operation being carried out by the passage through the cops of a suitable liquid, fluid, or the like in a manner similar to that already described.

In Fig. 8- isillustrated a cross-section of one of the circulartubes Z7, furnished-with nipples b for the-reception of the ends of the perforated cop-spindles. As illustrated, the

- ends of thesenipples are screwed into the tubes and may be soldered'in place. They are preferably provided with a depressedor slit portion b which mayactas a spring" to hold' the spindle in place. These nipples are not absolutely necessary {but itwill befound advantageous to employ them with small circular tubes, such as b.

Although the sections of the innervessel 13 have been describe'dand illustrated as-consisting of three tubes each, it"will' of course beunderstood that one or 'any'number of tubes may beemployed offlattened, circular, or other desired cross-section or that the innervessel may be formed asa'boXorcas-ing and divided into sections by suitable partitions or the like. i

The form of vessel illustrated is -on-lyintended to serve as a type.

Having now particularly described andas- I certained the nature of my-said in ventionand in What manner the same is to bra performed,

I declare that whatl claim is- In an apparatus for dyeing, bleaching, drying andsimilarly treating yarn,- the combination of a tank-and a structure therein, consisting ofan upper and-a lower hollowi-head I each divided into corresponding compartments by suitable partitions, perforated tubes connecting corresponding compartments together, one of saidheads provided with independent valved passages 1 leading to the compartments therein,-and=also provi'dedwith -apassage into which all of the independent passages lead, substantially as described.

In-witness whereof I subscribe my sign aturein presence of two witnesses. 

